Toshikatsu Doi, a senior councilor who plans to strengthen the shogunate, dispatches a group of Yagyu swordsmen to various places under the pretext of teaching swordsmanship. Tokugawa Tadanaga, who was ordered to commit seppuku on unfounded suspicions, ordered his close retainer Hyoma Otaki to eradicate the group of Yagyu swordsmen who had become the running dogs of the roju.
There are always assassins in the underworld, and this assassin, Black Angel, is one of the best of the best. Where the assassin comes in, Goro-yan will be there! This is a hardboiled story about two clients who are both connected to Black Angel. The story of Sakamaki and Black Angel can be traced to...?
"If a dog walks, he gets a stick." As the lines from Iroha Garuta go. Detective Gondo's nickname is "Inu-bo" (Dog Stick) as he walks around investigating. Toto Bank was robbed by three robbers, but the main suspect, who was waiting in a car, shot and killed the three robbers and fled. Inu-bo's investigation begins.
Onnakubi Village... the name comes from a long time ago, when a woman was beheaded by the daimyo and her head was displayed in the village for a month.... In Onnakubi Village, mysterious murders have been occurring one after another between the rival Nitobe and Kukijo clans. Kazuya, the eldest son of the Nitobe family and a newspaper reporter, returns to his hometown to solve the mystery of the murders!
In the city of Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the "Mibu Roshigumi," a group of samurai from Mito, was charged with maintaining public order amidst the conflict between the Kinno (royalist) and the Sabaku (shogunate) factions. When the Mito-born Serizawa Kamo and his subordinates behaved badly, Isamu Kondo and his followers from Bushu are ordered to kill Serizawa. The Mibu Roshigumi, after killing Serizawa, was granted an official name by the Imperial Court, and the legendary "Shinsengumi" was born! The lives of the men who devoted their lives to the bushido, as portrayed by the master mangaka, Takao Saito, depicted in the realistic jidaigeki style! (Source: LEED Publishing, translated) *Note: Originally published as two single-volume supplementals in the Ran Twins magazine.*
In April 1926, the young Dr. Asahina, who was taking aerial photographs deep in the Greater Amazon region of South America, photographed a man-made fence on a cliff. Earlier, primitive people were discovered in a village near the entrance to the unexplored Chablo. An investigation team including Dr. Asahina is formed, and Kazumasa heads for the unexplored Chablo, but what does he encounter there? A Jidai Gekiga "Nozarashi Narugen" and 4 other stories are included in this collection.